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[ANNOUNCE] libapreq2-2.12 Released
libapreq2-2.12 Released

The Apache Software Foundation and The Apache HTTP Server Project
are pleased to announce the 2.12 release of libapreq2. This
Announcement notes significant changes introduced by this release.

libapreq2-2.12 is released under the Apache License
version 2.0. It is now available through the ASF mirrors

http://httpd.apache.org/apreq/download.cgi

and has entered the CPAN as

file: $CPAN/authors/id/J/JO/JOESUF/libapreq2-2.12.tar.gz
size: 859412 bytes
md5: 76e2acde0d82246dea6f2565f3746eec


libapreq2 is an APR-based shared library used for parsing HTTP cookies,
query-strings and POST data. This package provides

1) version 2.7.1 of the libapreq2 library,

2) mod_apreq2, a filter module necessary for using libapreq2
within the Apache HTTP Server,

3) the Apache2::Request, Apache2::Cookie, and Apache2::Upload
perl modules for using libapreq2 with mod_perl2.

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Changes with libapreq2-2.12 (released March 13, 2009)

- C API [joes]
Make the cookie parser a little more flexible.

- Interactive CGI module [issac]
Allow cgi module to interactively prompt for parameters and cookies when
running a script from the command line and not from a CGI interface

- Perl Glue [joes]
Fix the linking of the perl modules to libapreq2 and libapr
on Solaris.

- Perl Glue [joes]
Fix install-time linking issue of the .so modules.
Previously they would remain linked against the src
library path, not the install path.

- C API [joes]
Add optional interface for apreq_handle_apache2().

- C API [joes]
Clean up buggy apreq_hook_find_param().

- Perl Glue Build [Philip M. Gollucci]
config.status format changed format yet again in autoconf 2.62+.

- License [Mladen Turk]
Add libapreq.rc and generate libapreq.res

- Build [Mladen Turk]
Add APREQ_DECLARE_EXPORT/APREQ_DECLARE_STATIC
in the same way as APR declares so that dllexport/dllimport
get correctly handled.

- Build [Randy Kobes]
Add appropriate manifest command to embed manifest files on Win32
when using VC8

- C API [Andy Grundman, joes]
Add missing bytes_read initializer to apreq_handle_custom().

- C API [.suggested by Vinay Y S, tested by Steve Hay and Peter Walsham]
For Win32, remove the
flag |= APR_FILE_NOCLEANUP | APR_SHARELOCK;
in apreq_file_cleanup, to avoid problems with file uploads.

- C API [joes]
Fix leak associated to calling apreq_brigade_fwrite() on an upload
brigade.

- Build [Philip M. Gollucci]
SunOS (Solaris)
Users must use gmake not make for building.

- Build [Philip M. Gollucci]
SunOS (Solaris)
Code around bug in libtool (at least in 1.5.18, 1.5.20, 1.5.22)
causing mod_apreq2 to be built instead of mod_apreq2.so

- C API [Philip M. Gollucci]
Fix comparison signed vs unsigned comparison
in apreq_fwritev() on SunOS/gcc where iovec.iov_len is a long.

- Build [Philip M. Gollucci]
SunOS (Solaris)
fix duplicate link error to libexpat.so -- by using the one from httpd
exclusively now.

- Build [Philip M. Gollucci]
code around |#_!!_#| autoconf 2.60 bug.